The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the privy Council and Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday December 1 1930

Sir W. S. Holdsworth D. C. L. (Oxon) has contributed a rather long article under the above heading to the October number of the Law Quarterly Review giving reasons for the view taken in the Report of the Indian States Committee (commonly known as the Butler Committee’s Report) that the reltionship between the Indian States and the British Paramount power in India is not to be determined by th [...] The findings of the Butler Comittee’s Report in this respect were aversely criticised in the columns of the Law Quarterly Review on the ground that they do not satisfactorily answer the reasonings of Sir Leslie Scott’s Opinion which is a reproduction of his argument before the Butler Committee on behalf of the Indian Princes. [...] Although we do not endorse the views of this Butler Commission in other respects we controverted the views of Sir Leslie Stott and his supporters that the reltionfthip between the British Power in India and the Indian Chiefs is to be determined by the treaties alone and that the usage and politital practice that have been followed and developed since the transfer of the Goernment of India t [...] principal foundation of the coianon law it is ditlictilt to see why it cannot help to make that part of the constitutional law of the 13ritisli Empire which regihieS the relationship of flue Paramount Power and the States; and it it in true that the political practice of Parliament tital the Crown has created that important branch of constitutional litIV which by means of the Cabinet system [...] But we canot endorse his view which is the same as that of the Butler Committee that should Dominion Status be granted to British India the direct relationship of the Indian Chiefs sheuld be with the Viceroy and not with The Governor-General in Council which would then be constituted of resposible ministers; and that the present reltionship of the Chiefs with the Government of India